For me, I went to doing all host checks (pings)/no service checks once we went to nagios 3 because of the logic of it. When I am pinging a host, I am checking to see if a host is up, i.e. host check. "ping" isn't some service running on the host that I am checking, it is checking the host itself. So from a logic standpoint, to me at least, it made more sense to just do the host checks. ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 -----------------------------------------------
On Oct 31, 2008, at 2:10 AM, L B wrote: > Hello all, > > What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check > in the host template (check_command check-host-alive), and creating a > ping service applied to the host ? > I did a test with both configurations, and didn't see a different > behavior. > > I thought it was a question of dependencies: if a service fails, a > host check is done to check if the host is up. But if one of the > services (ping or another) fails, a host check is done anyway even if > my host checks are disabled (check_interval 0), (that's a correct > behavior for me) > > My configuration doesn't have host checks because it was imported > from Nagios 2.x, and disabling host checks was an optimization setting > I've read somewhere (I also read that it's not necessary anymore with > nagios 3) . Now I'm running Nagios 3, so I'm wondering if it would > make sense to disable the ping service checks and do it as a host > check. Why should I do /don't do this ? > > Thanks! > -- > L.B. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
